The Nation 20 July 2013

Why won’t Kiwis work on farms — a special panel.
And why won’t they also work on fishing boats — Immigration Minister Michael Woodhouse.
Steve Adams — why he may be the last Kiwi to make the NBA draft.
What price 100% Pure New Zealand? Tunnels and monorails in the Conservation estate.

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Comments (9)

jaba

it’s because farm work is hard yakka with terrible hours and I belive the starting wage isn’t too flash. Lazy bstds can get a living dole payment doing fk all .. that needs to stop.
I’m getting on a bit BUT if I had a choice of working on a farm or the dole then doing work would win every time.
Who can remember Mallard picking asparagus and Shane Jones on a fishing boat?

Dazzaman

Plenty of young Maori boys are now increasingly doing that real farm work (farm managers, leading hands, etc.)…the cow cockies are finally letting them in, rather than keeping them in the spud paddocks which was our assigned (in reality) lot for over a hundred years. Lots of the brothers are usually on the boats too. Might finally be getting rewarded properly for all the hard yakka we’ve put into the farming & fishing sector.

hj

it’s because farm work is hard yakka with terrible hours and I belive the starting wage isn’t too flash. Lazy bstds can get a living dole payment doing fk all .. that needs to stop.
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What about all the city jobs that are hard work? Who installs the under floor insulation… (every home a warm home)? My guess is that the reason Kiwis (they claim) don’t want to work on farms is social?

hj

Why won’t Kiwis work on farms — a special panel.
And why won’t they also work on fishing boats — Immigration Minister Michael Woodhouse.
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Elites love to piss on the ordinary New Zealander. The only ones who won’t be there are the people they are calling shit.

UpandComer

duggledog

Loads of Sth Americans and Filipinos on Southland farms now. They don’t mind the hard work.

Farming is hard but not as hard as it was when I was growing up. Much better machinery etc now. The hardest part of dairying for me was the bloody grinding routine of milking twice a day whether you wanted to or not, whether you were a bit crook or whatever. No sick days, shit, flies in summer, freezing hands in winter.

hj

I couldn’t catch all the discussion but the work requires that they can fall with their fee running. Also as Calvin Fisher said “they can put 4 people in a house rather than a family”.. so suits the type enjoying o/e rather than young man/ young family/ young man with partner who will be uprooted from “mates”?